Leaving my Home Country for Australia

[rudebwoy]

Germany is the middle of Europe, plenty of other countries to visit on a regular basis.

Australia is an island far from everywhere else.

Look how many Aussies are living outside the country, that should tell you something.

 

[BURNΞR]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_diaspora

More than 9% of Canadians live outside of Canada, what does tell you? This data is from 2010, I'm sure it's more now.

 

[262]

Germany is the middle of Europe, plenty of other countries to visit on a regular basis.

Australia is an island far from everywhere else.

Look how many Aussies are living outside the country, that should tell you something.

Good point. Curious why OP hasn't visited his neighbors such as Poland or the Czech Republic. Could probably make money teaching German - I know there's demand for it in Poland, at least.

 

[Leonard D Neubache]

Guten tag, OP.
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My country is notorious for the working condition. Employees are often forced to work for very long hours every day (sometimes without their rightful payment). Therefore, I do appreciate the working condition here no matter what other people say.
Living costs are high indeed, but the economy is (relatively) robust and growing.
If you think of living as an employee, then this is a great place. (I know many people on RVF endorse entrepreneurship, but there is no single advice which is universally helpful for every single man.)
...

I personally prefer to live in the sticks, and Australia is great for that. Pick a medium to small city and accept a longer commute to work, or find work teaching at a country school which are often hard up for staff willing to work in the middle of nowhere with "hicks". Rent for a small place is pitifully low and if you enjoy nature, hunting, etc then your recreation costs are non-existent.

Nothing beats being on a few acres surrounded by trees with only critters for neighbours.

 

[Off The Reservation]

Guten tag, OP.
...
My country is notorious for the working condition. Employees are often forced to work for very long hours every day (sometimes without their rightful payment). Therefore, I do appreciate the working condition here no matter what other people say.
Living costs are high indeed, but the economy is (relatively) robust and growing.
If you think of living as an employee, then this is a great place. (I know many people on RVF endorse entrepreneurship, but there is no single advice which is universally helpful for every single man.)
...

I personally prefer to live in the sticks, and Australia is great for that. Pick a medium to small city and accept a longer commute to work, or find work teaching at a country school which are often hard up for staff willing to work in the middle of nowhere with "hicks". Rent for a small place is pitifully low and if you enjoy nature, hunting, etc then your recreation costs are non-existent.

Nothing beats being on a few acres surrounded by trees with only critters for neighbours.

Australian "hicks" are some of the best people on earth, I would live in an Australian hick town in a heartbeat.

 

[YMD]

Germany is the middle of Europe, plenty of other countries to visit on a regular basis.

Australia is an island far from everywhere else.

Umm I have to agree with it.
For those who want to explore Europe and FSU, Australia won't be the best choice. It's also far from Latin America.
I actually want to go to those places more frequently, but the distance and flight ticket fees are discouraging.

 

[Que enspastic]

It's actually a small continent. Greenland is the largest island according to geographers

 

[rudebwoy]

Germany is the middle of Europe, plenty of other countries to visit on a regular basis.

Australia is an island far from everywhere else.

Umm I have to agree with it.
For those who want to explore Europe and FSU, Australia won't be the best choice. It's also far from Latin America.
I actually want to go to those places more frequently, but the distance and flight ticket fees are discouraging.

It is a no brainer, stay in Germany or Europe at least.

Being in Canada makes it hard to visit Europe on a regular basis.

I always wondered why there are loads of Aussies and Kiwis in London, most of the ones I met always use to gripe about the UK.

 

[Que enspastic]

They gripe about the UK because they would prefer Australia to be located off the coast of France than in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately that's not reality so they "settle" for UK as their European base.

 

[bushcraft9]

Guten tag, OP.
...
My country is notorious for the working condition. Employees are often forced to work for very long hours every day (sometimes without their rightful payment). Therefore, I do appreciate the working condition here no matter what other people say.
Living costs are high indeed, but the economy is (relatively) robust and growing.
If you think of living as an employee, then this is a great place. (I know many people on RVF endorse entrepreneurship, but there is no single advice which is universally helpful for every single man.)
...

I personally prefer to live in the sticks, and Australia is great for that. Pick a medium to small city and accept a longer commute to work, or find work teaching at a country school which are often hard up for staff willing to work in the middle of nowhere with "hicks". Rent for a small place is pitifully low and if you enjoy nature, hunting, etc then your recreation costs are non-existent.

Nothing beats being on a few acres surrounded by trees with only critters for neighbours.

Definitely agree with you there mate. One should learn some skills though before going out into remote areas. Like you said hunting, which should be one of them. Fishing, trapping, etc should be others. Unfortunately though in this modern world it is hard to get away from modern life, look at the flight path map of the world and will be unable to even see Europe due to its density of flight paths. I have looked at Argentina as being a possible country for me to settle eventually, do something that I am skilled which is farming.

 

[bushcraft9]

Forget Australia, can't think of a country as worse as that marxist, big Government, police state to settle in. I mean look at gun regulations in that Country, that gives you an idea that this is a country, whose government can pull some insane stunt such as suddenly increasing its tax rate on everything. Forget it, go to Argentina, women are hot, people are friendly, climate is good, wide open spaces once you leave the capital, great food, and a cheap place to live.

 

[Nowak]

Ive met several expats across Europe from Oz over the last year and many thinking of moving to some nation in Europe traveling through. Forum and articles at ROK will tell you the only ladies worse than the Merkans are ones from Oz. The problems with cultural marxism are horrendous and the situation with bike helmets is beyond ridiculous.

However there are two big advantages Australia has over Europe as a whole

1 A generally decent economy (Germany's is better though or more or less the same) that is material standards of well being are much higher than in Southern or Eastern Europe as well as parts of North western Europe. Then again, as a teacher from Germany,I imagine things aren't going to be very different


2 Along with Canada and New Zealand , Australia has a relatively better situation with immigration and the types of people let in. Us Europeans really need to emulate your island processing policy, at least its better than the shit show thats going on now.

 

[Jack Of All Trades]

I would say canada isn't much better than germany when it comes to a decent economy, especially with what's happening now. It's pretty bad as a whole and the job market is pretty bad. You also don't get cheap flights to fun places to party like you do in germany in canada, traveling is a struggle because it's expensive.

 

[rudebwoy]

Germany is the fourth strongest economy in the world.

Other than sun, I wouldn't even consider Australia. The women would be a nail in the coffin for me.

 

[Jack Of All Trades]

I think you should stay in germany, and take advantage of the generous vacation times. From what I understand europeans can get up to 2 months a year in vacation if they save up their holidays? While making good wages in germany I don't understand how you can go wrong with that. Continental europeans are spoiled when it comes to vacation and time off, your going to get maybe 2 weeks off a year in canada or the USA. Not only that but your going to need a few years to get used to how things are done in a new country (taxes, housing, banking, etc.).

 

[easternwomenrule]

I grew up in Australia and now have moved to Thailand. I can't stand Western society where I've travel and live in most of them. They are all basically the same! We also open our doors to immigration where alot of tenants I interview now come from the middle east (Muslims). They get free money and healthcare very easily and can bring their families over without a problem.

I had a friend that gave up teaching in Australia. You can't say "no" to children here cause the child might get upset. Kids have more rights than parents and teachers. Upset a child and you will have their crazy parent on your back to protect their little angel.

I know a couple of my teachers from high school that had mental breakdowns due to middle school students! This teacher had 2 strokes in the last 10 years. He is now teaching in Thailand and is 100x more happier cause kids there are brought up to respect their elders, specially their teachers!

 

[BURNΞR]

Income protection. An insurance company told me about a woman that is getting paid out for life because she got ptsd from psychological trauma done to her from kids at school.

 

[Que enspastic]

Has OP given up on Oz relocation ?

 

[Off The Reservation]

Forgot to mention, no internet in Oz.

 

[DirtyGlobal]

Hey guys, I´ve been out for some time. But my dream is still to go to Australia. I can´t study in Australia moneywise, so I thought about doing a new Bachelor in Germany for 3 years and then go to Australia. Are there any jobs on the SOL that just require a Bachelor of 3 years ?

I read about Forester, but that´s not really my dream job.